Cables To Go 16898 USB IEEE-1284 Parallel Printer Adapter Cable, Beige 6 Feet

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Cables To Go 16898 USB IEEE-1284 Parallel Printer Adapter Cable, Beige 6 Feet

(44 customer reviews)

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Description:

Don't waste the parallel port on your inkjet, laser, or high speed printer. This cable uses the USB port on your PC or hub, so your parallel port remains free for a zip drive or scanner. Forget the hassles of IRQ sharing by adapting your printer to USB. If you have multiple printers, you can eliminate the need for a switchbox by connecting each printer to a USB port. The device is fully transparent to the user, and is ideal for true bi-directional communication. This adapter auto-negotiates hardware recognition for faster protocol setup, and is fully plug-and-play compatible. Connector 1: USB Type A Male Connector 2: Centronics 36 Male System Reqs • Requires Microsoft® Windows® 98, ME®, 2000, XP, Vista® or Windows 7. • Please make sure this item is used only with printers. It cannot be guaranteed that any other devices other than printers, such as multi-function printer/scanner/faxes, tapes drives, zip drives, or other non-standard parallel devices will work with this unit.

Features:

Connect your IEEE-1284 printer to your USB port
Connector 1: USB Type A Male Connector 2: Centronics 36 Male
Compliant with USB 1.0 specifications
If you have multiple printers, you can eliminate the need for a switchbox by connecting each printer to a USB port.
This adapter auto-negotiates hardware recognition for faster protocol setup, and is fully plug-and-play compatible.

Product Details:

Product Length:	8.0 inches
Product Width:	6.0 inches
Product Height:	2.0 inches
Product Weight:	0.2 pounds
Package Length:	6.1 inches
Package Width:	5.4 inches
Package Height:	1.4 inches
Package Weight:	0.3 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 44 reviews

Customer Reviews:

Average Customer Review: 4.0

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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:

Works very well on HP Laser Printer May 04, 2008
By S. Tackaberry
I bought this to work with a Laserjet 5 printer. I found it installed easily and needed no drivers to work with Windows XP. I've printed text and graphics without a problem. Very happy with this product.

7 of 7 found the following review helpful:

Works With Mac OS X 10.6.2 and HP Laserjet Jan 16, 2010
By Ishmael "cleverlemming"
I'm enjoying the use of my HP Laserjet 1100 again. Doesn't come with any Mac install instructions so here's what I did:
1. connected laptop to printer using USB adapter
2. turned printer on
3. used system preferences to add my printer (not the cablestogo adapter). Add printer utility saw the printer right away. Despite what it says in the instructions for Windoes, no drivers were necessary to use the cable adapter with OS X Snow Leopard.
4. started printing
5. wrote this review

7 of 7 found the following review helpful:

Works with HP Laserjet4 and Windows Vista 64bit Jan 31, 2009
By Steven E. Kelly
After reading of installations glitches experienced by other users I thought there was a possibiliy of problems. I have an old HP Laserjet (1st year they made it) and a new Dell machine w/ 64 bit Win Vista. There is no installation CD and none was needed. I used the printer set-up instructions in windows and set the printer to print to the virtual USB driver instead of LPT1. The instructions indicated that there are downloadable drivers for Win ME and Win 98 on their website. My printing experience has so far been compatible to the parallel interface I had on an older machine.

5 of 5 found the following review helpful:

Weird instalation... Jan 05, 2007
By Edgar Mertins Pappa
The cable works very well, I now can use the printer I had forgotten due to the lack of parallel port in my computer. Installation manual, however, goes only up to windows 2000, which leads me to think that the product is rather old, or that Plug'N'Play usually takes care of this. I had a little puzzle to solve before I managed to make it work, but in the end I realized that the "Printer Spooler" service was disabled from within windows. Once enabled, everything worked perfectly.

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

Parallel to USB Printer Adapter Cable Jan 31, 2010
By Philip J. Cochrane "Phil Cochrane"
I have a new computer and an old Xerox laser printer. There were no drivers for Vista and no parallel port on the new computer. The printer is in excellent condition, but with the above conditions it was absolutely useless. BUT, USB to the rescue. What a wonderful invention. A computer friend doubted that this adapter cable would solve the problem. I went ahead anyway and ordered it from Cables to GO through Amazon.com. When it arrived I plugged the parallel end in the printer port and the USB end into the USB port on the computer and voila it worked. What a relief, I did not have to junk a perfectly working work-horse of a printer. I am very happy with the results and highly recommend using an adapter cable to solve connecting an old printer to a new computer.

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